For a team of Indiana's stature, going this long between poll appearances is almost unheard of.

WSJ: Welcome Back to Relevance, Indiana Hoosiers

Look, this was the case long before the poll that Jake or the poll that I mentioned to Chip point out.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

So we -- I would note, in that poll, as long as we're talking about it, that the change in view that Americans have developed in -- as it regards to the sequester, now that it has been implemented and the cuts are being felt -- I think frustrations with the result of congressional inaction are growing.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

The poll tax would last as long as her premiership.

BBC: John Cole: Me and Mrs Thatcher

The party was doing "quite well" in Wales and a recent opinion poll suggested if a Welsh Assembly election came before long - the next is due in 2016 - "we'd take a number of seats".

BBC: UKIP 'on course for Welsh seats' says MEP

Once the debates are over, there will remain three weeks until the Nov. 7 election, to be filled with frantic, nonstop campaigning, but it is difficult to see why poll numbers that have been so stable for so long would change by much.

CNN: Analysis: No change in presidential race after debate

But the tough thing is, you saw that poll this week, I mean you've got a long way to go.

BBC: News | BREAKFAST WITH FROST | Conservative Leader, Iain Duncan Smith MP

Obama is ahead of Clinton in the North Carolina polls, while CNN's latest poll of polls suggests Clinton is up in Indiana after the two have long been tied there.

CNN: Dems ramp up attacks ahead of pivotal primaries

For their part, Democrats, gleeful that their president enjoys a double-digit poll lead over Mr Romney on foreign policy, were painting the Republican as a diplomatic lightweight long before trouble flared in Libya.

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